Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
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- xūn
English
- meat diet
- strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc)
- used in 葷粥|荤粥[Xun1 yu4]
- strong smelling
- non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc)
- vulgar
- obscene
- meat
粵語
- 肉食
Variants
Words containing 葷
- 葷菜fan1 coi3
non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
- 開葷hoi1 fan1
to eat meat after having maintained a vegetarian diet
- 葷素fan1 sou3
meat and vegetable
- 葷粥fan1 zuk1
Xunyu, an ethnic group of northern China in ancient times
- 葷腥fan1 seng1
meat and fish
- 葷話fan1 waa6
obscene speech; crude language
- 五葷ng5 fan1
(Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and coriander
- 油葷jau4 fan1
meat foods
- 葷油fan1 jau4
lard
- 葷辛fan1 san1
very pungent and spicy vegetable dishes (a common Buddhist term)
- 茹葷jyu4 fan1
to eat meat
- 葷笑話fan1 siu3 waa6
dirty jokes
- 葷段子fan1 dyun6 zi2
dirty joke
- 葷豆花fan1 dau6 faa1
- 茹葷飲酒jyu4 fan1 jam2 zau2
to eat meat and drink wine
- 七葷八素cat1 fan1 baat3 sou3
confused
- 有葷有素jau5 fan1 jau5 sou3
to include both meat and vegetables
- 葷腥不沾fan1 seng1 bat1 zim1